Why?
And why Tchaikovsky? I mean The Beetles wrote some good stuff, and you can't help but like Madonona... and who could forget 'These are a few of my favorite things'? But it's specifically opera and at the moment Pietrs work that has my soul moving. And this worries me. These amazing passions that stir up within me, that build to such climax - is this my soul? Or just intense human emotion - connecting to what? If it is my 'soul' dancing in pleasure, by god - literally - I'm fucked. I don't believe I have a soul. But then how do I explain my intense inner feeling of wonder, contentment, excitment and joy? What is being contented? What is being consoled? My mind? Am I sitting here marveling at the way in which the lead violin is not to strong, or the way the brass hit the notes with perfect clarity? Not that I'm aware of. It's the pervasive 'soul' of the music that is doing something to my inner self. My mind is being affected and I don't know why. I'm not going to stop it, in fact I just turned it up. MY GOD THIS FEELS GOOD. GOOD! Blast your music deep with me... see I can make listening to music read like sex. But its not about sex. It's not about a physical. It's a non-physical thing, a vibration in my head (literally) that seems to set off the right chemicals.
But not in others.
Why?
What music do you listen to, and have you have any of these kinds of -awesome, god-touching, soul creating - moments. Come to think of it, has any experience (apart from a church experience) touched you in a deep and personal way for real reason? Share with me, I'm curious. My ears burn with the music, my mind sings with the noise, my heart beats with the drums, and I'm cleanesed. Of what I don't know. But I've never been touched by music like this before either. And no, I'm not drunk, on drugs, or just finished paint stripping the bathroom. The music is just fucking awesome. Someone with knowledge on this stuff please tell me why - I know the old saying: Music to sooth the savage beast... and I've been labeled a Hutt so I guess I qualify but... damn this is intense.
Anyway I had to share this with you. So I encourage you - find a piece of excellent music (Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony!) lock yourself in your room, turn on the volume and let it wash over you. Let it swell around your ears, pour down into your brain and lift you off of this shitty planet with it's shitty problems to a place of perfect noise. I have to stop writing now, it's too much. Catch you on planet mars kids, I'm fucking off.... yeah baby yeah...
2 comments:
Tchaikoski No 5 is his best in my opinion. I love it as much as Beethoven No 7. I love it as much as Mahler No 2. The list goes on and on...
Why you ask do we get pulled apart, opened up, thrown around and messed with in such a wild way? Way to we get stirred when a beautiful Aria is sung by a Soprano in your favourite opera?
Simple - Music breaks through all barriers, mental, physical, emotional, you are as naked as the day you were born when you listen to good music (especially classical). I believe in the power of resonance, vibrations (lest we forget that we are energy beings with energy fields around us, and sound is mere energy turned into vibration)... So what you get is two energy fields colliding, mixing, changing, cross polination and eventually harmony... Your energy mixes and dances with musical energy, and the next minute you are flung around like a mad Tango dancer, skipping and twisting and spinning across the dancefloor of your inner self.
Music embodies transcendence... It elevates us to a higher plane of existance, perhaps a higher conciousness is awoken in our minds?
Regardless, there is nothing more powerful than powerful music. The pen is mightier than the sword, since the pen can write and create, the sword can only destroy... Creationism embodied...
I ramble, but its more than just a surge of brass, the whine of the strings, the pluck of the harp, the bash of the timpony, its a Symphony of Energy. Energy cannot be destroyed...
I dont think that mind droppings of comments in a blog is adequate to explain what needs to be explained, you need to gesture and move around as you fling yourself and your emotional self around.
Guy, it's "Beatles". Twit.
By the way, I'm following your blog, so you can follow mine...fair's fair. By "can" I mean "have to".
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